Stuart L. Finz - Mineola, NY

Stuart L. Finz is the senior trial lawyer and CEO of the firm. He has earned his success with his unique skill in the courtroom scoring multi-million dollar verdicts and complicated multi-million dollar case settlements for the firms clients. Mr. Finz oversees all of the litigation departments of the firm, including the Products Liability Department, the General Tort Department, the Medical Malpractice Department, the Appeals and Law Department, and is the Director of the firms Tobacco Litigation Group.

Mr. Finz attended Long Island University and graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He obtained a Juris Doctor Degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where he was elected President of the law school student body and listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.

He was born in Queens New York and is admitted to practice law in New York State, the U.S. District Courts, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts. Mr. Finz is a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the American Bar Association, and the Queens County and Nassau County Bar Associations. He is Vice-Chair of the Queens County Medical Malpractice Committee, and has lectured for the New York County Lawyers Association.

Mr. Finz has been named by New York Super Lawyers as one of the top personal injury trial lawyers in New York for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. He has been selected as member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, was listed in the New York Law Journal report of Largest Verdicts, and was selected by the leaders of the Democratic party to run for United States Congresses in the 3rd Congressional district.

He was appointed to the New York State Plaintiffs DES Liaison Committee where he fought for women against the major manufactures of DES, a drug that caused cancer in the offspring of women who were exposed to the drug in-utero. He co-authored Problems of a DES-Exposed Woman in Her Childbearing Years - Legal Implications, and has been actively involved in numerous significant legal issues that affect the health and safety of the public, always seeking to advance the rights of individuals, including his ongoing battle against the tobacco industry on behalf of victims who have contracted smoking induced lung cancer.

Mr. Finz obtained the first jury verdict in New York State against Philip Morris USA Inc. on behalf of a smoker that contracted lung cancer. The landmark verdict held Philip Morris USA Inc. and American Tobacco accountable for designing cigarettes to addict smokers. The record $20,520,000.00 jury verdict was published by Verdict Search as one of the top verdicts in the nation.

In addition, Mr. Finz obtained the largest recorded settlement in New York State history for an individual personal injury victim. The record settlement for one plaintiff was in the sum of $21 Million and the total case settlement was in the sum of $24.5 Million.

Mr. Finz handles a wide array of plaintiff personal injury litigation. With the ideology of "protecting victims rights," Mr. Finz has fought hard and achieved record results for victims for over 25 years.